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Here's video featuring Activities Director Rick Gossen announcing the 2021-2022 outstanding senior athletes of the year at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa. This was at the senior recognition banquet on Wednesday, May 25 at the B-B-E high school's Olson Auditorium. The graduation video player can be found at the newspaper's Jaguars sports extended coverage blog: http://bbejaguars.blogspot.com/2022/06/b-b-e-class-of-2022-graduation-live.html....
After a lengthy Mother Nature-induced delay to start their season, Elrosa's amateur baseball team has rocketed off to a 5-0 start starting with a 4-0 win over the visiting Meire Grove Grovers on Sunday, May 15. Two weekends ago in two road games, the Saints won 15-5 at Lake Henry on May 21 and then 9-7 at Spring Hill on May 22. On Saturday under the lights of Saints Field, Elrosa defeated Farming 7-2 before they headed down to Roscoe on Sunday afternoon and picked up a 10-1 win. The delayed...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary students participated in track and field day events on May 19 and 20 at the high school football stadium. Elementary P.E. teacher Austin Rambow and members of the varsity track and field team organized multiple races and field events. Below is video from the Tug of War competition, in this video with the fourth grade girls facing off with the fourth grade boys. To view the newspaper's photo gallery from the afternoon, click on the following short link: https://bit.ly/3NV60q8....
The Brooten American Legion Ranten-Sunflot Post No. 288 hosted a Memorial Day program on May 30 at the Brooten Pavilion. Severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall had passed over the area before sunrise that day, so the event was moved indoors from its usual location of Memorial Park. This also happened in 2019. A great crowd of visitors were on hand for the program, which included the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school band performing music. Below is video from the program....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Class of 2022 held its graduation ceremony on Friday, June 3 at the high school football stadium. Under picture-perfect conditions of full sunshine, no wind and seasonal temperatures hovering around 70 degrees, a total of 53 B-B-E graduates were honored and recognized as they received their diplomas. Below is video from the full ceremony. At a later point, we will include the times of each part of graduation in the description in this web article. Here's a link you...
Belgrade Brooten Elrosa school, along with Taher, Inc., is once again offering free breakfast and free lunch for school aged children up to 18 years old! No registration necessary! Just come and join us! Where: Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school in Brooten; Mondays through Fridays between June 6 and August 19 (closed on Monday, July 4); When: breakfasts are 8 to 8:30 a.m., and lunches are 11 to 11:30 a.m....
Every day humanity appears to get dumber and dumber on Planet Earth. A few examples of this are featured in the video below....
In the May 26 zip code report released by the Minnesota Department of Health, the Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa zip code areas (56312, 56316 and 56325) posted a three for new COVID-19 cases over a one-week period for the fourth straight week. These figures of three each week represent M.D.H. lab-confirmed cases reported to the state, most usually from health care centers and clinics. They do not represent test results from at-home tests. The May 26 report shows all three new cases in the...
Bonanza Valley Voice publisher's column, May 26, 2022. I so vividly remember a conversation I had one afternoon in the spring of 1995, when the late Terry Frazee called me in to his principal office in the newly-remodeled B-B-E high school in Belgrade, told me to sit down, sunk his shoulders and looked me in the eye before saying, "Randy, I'm gonna keep this short, I'm sure you want to get back to Mr. Gesellchen's chemistry." Frazee looked me straight in the eye and said, "I know you meant well, but please, don't bully the bully." I sat for a...
Below is the video for the Syttende Mai parade that was held in Sunburg on Sunday, May 15. You can see a few photos from that day by clicking over to the newspaper's online photo gallery. As of May 28, the albums are still not complete. The link is: https://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/2022-B-B-EBonanza-Valley-area-events. It amazes the publisher of the Bonanza Valley Voice just how much action can be packed into the town of Sunburg in one day! In our view, it is like a one-day county fair. What...
The Elrosa Seniors hosted their first Bologna Daze fundraiser night of the season on Tuesday, May 24 at Bucky's Bar. Below is video from live entertainment provided for the event, with Donny Brang singing "The Wanderer". Additional coverage of Bologna Daze was published on page 12 of the May 26 Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
During the week of May 9 to May 12, progress was made in a big way for the proposed Jenniges Meat Processing plant on the west side of Brooten. This new plant, which will also include a significant grocery retail area, would be built in a new, eight-acre plot of land that has been annexed into the city of Brooten in Bangor Township, Pope County. At their Monday, May 9 meeting, the Brooten city council approved a public hearing on the project that is set for a special session meeting on Monday,...
Fiddle and violin music filled the air at multiple locations throughout the day in Sunburg for the town's annual Syttende Mai celebration on Sunday, May 15. Below is a video featuring musicians warming up and preparing for a performance at Hope Lutheran Church that morning....
Brooten American Legion Ranten-Sundflot Post No. 288 will host a Memorial Day program on Monday, May 30 at 10 a.m. at Memorial Park on Highway 55 by RJ’s Mini Mart. The event will feature Trinity/West Lake Johanna Lutheran interim pastor Gary Mills as keynote speaker. The B-B-E high school band will also perform. After the program, American Legion members will march to Legion Hall, where everyone is invited for cake, coffee and socializing. Please come and honor our veterans who have given so m...
In the May 19 zip code report released by the Minnesota Department of Health, the Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa zip code areas (56312, 56316 and 56325) posted a three for new COVID-19 cases over a one-week period for the fourth straight week. These figures of three each week represent M.D.H. lab-confirmed cases reported to the state, most usually from health care centers and clinics. They do not represent test results from at-home tests. The May 19 report shows two new cases in the Belgrade zip...
In the May 12 zip code report released by the Minnesota Department of Health, the Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa zip code areas (56312, 56316 and 56325) posted a three for new COVID-19 cases over a one-week period for the third straight week. These figures of three each week represent M.D.H. lab-confirmed cases reported to the state, most usually from health care centers and clinics. They do not represent test results from at-home tests. The May 12 report has all three new cases originating in the...
Everyone is invited to the friendly town of Sunburg this coming Sunday, May 15 for the annual Syttende Mai celebration. The full schedule of events has been published in the April 28 and May 5 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. It also appeared in full-page format in the May 12 issue. You can see over 190 photos from the Syttende Mai grand parade on May 16, 2021 by clicking over to the newspaper's Smugmug photo gallery (short link): https://bit.ly/3sr4fbX. A video is also in this web...
Students in grades kindergarten through fifth grade at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school performed their spring music concert on Wednesday, May 4 in front of a packed house in the school gymnasium. The music and dialogue celebrated the history of Rock N' Roll with music from singers such as Little Richard, James Brown and Elvis Presley. Below is a video clip from the start of the show. Prior to the musical, the fifth grade band performed a long list of songs including the traditional...
Meanwhile, in a country with some of the craziest humans to have ever lived on earth, known more commonly as China...they have to swab the rear ends of fish (as well as their mouths) just to see if they're "safe" from the black plague, or what we also know as COVID-19. Meanwhile, life has long since returned to normal in our rural communities of west central Minnesota....
Don't criticize the woman in this video. She CLEARLY knows a great deal about SCIENCE. "Trust the science!" they say. Oh, boy. God help us. I think society is in trouble....
On the evening of Thursday, May 12, a significant thunderstorm, wind storm and rain storm passed over the Bonanza Valley area with brute force. In some areas, tornado-like activity was reported near Lake Johanna, Padua and other areas. Just shy of 7 p.m., the warning sirens began blaring in Brooten, and they worked exactly as intended. For a period of 10 minutes after the sirens began, the wind blew at around 10 to 15 miles an hour as a dark, ominous cloud developed to the southwest. In a...
"Feel free to keep your mask on" she says - it just makes her feel better in front of the cameras. This video features New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, one of the most vile creatures on earth. She is especially bad news. To get a glimpse at how badly New Zealand is handling the coronavirus issue, click here: https://bit.ly/3kJcBHG. New Zealand is learning the hard way that jabbing everyone is not a winning strategy to beat back the virus. On April 21, the country reported close to...
Below is video from the Trinity / West Lake Johanna Lutheran Parish God Squad children singing at Trinity Lutheran Church on Sunday, May 1. Additional coverage was published in the May 5 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
In the May 5 zip code report released by the Minnesota Department of Health, the Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa zip code areas (56312, 56316 and 56325) posted a three for new COVID-19 cases over a one-week period. This number compares to three reported in the April 28 and a two for new cases reported by the M.D.H. in the April 21 zip code report for this area. The May 5 report mirrored exactly what the April 28 report showed: two new cases reported by the Brooten zip code, one in the Belgrade zip...
Everyone is invited to the friendly town of Sunburg on Sunday, May 15 for the annual Syttende Mai celebration. The full schedule of events has been published in the April 28 and May 5 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. It will also appear in the May 12 issue. You can see over 190 photos from the Syttende Mai grand parade on May 16, 2021 by clicking over to the newspaper's Smugmug photo gallery (short link): https://bit.ly/3sr4fbX. A video is also in this web article with footage from...